Chained (22 page)

The things I got right in this book are thanks to those who helped me along the way. Of course it would be impossible for anyone to teach me everything I needed to know, so if I got anything wrong it’s because I didn’t ask the right questions.

Thanks, everyone, for helping me get here.

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

Text copyright © 2012 by Lynne Kelly

All rights reserved

First hardcover edition, 2012

eBook edition, May 2012

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Kelly, Lynne, 1969–

    Chained / Lynne Kelly. — 1st ed.

        p.    cm.

    Summary: To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.

    ISBN 978-0-374-31237-4 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-0-374-31250-3 (e-book)

    [1.  Conduct of life—Fiction.   2.  Elephants—Fiction.   3.  Animals—Treatment—Fiction.   4.  Circus—Fiction.   5.  Child labor—Fiction.   6.  India—Fiction.]   I.  Title.

PZ7.K29639Ch 2012

[Fic]—dc23

2011031767

eISBN 9780374312503